JB, when the decision was made to change his costume, was there any thought about simply changing the colors away from the blue and yellow and keeping the overall pattern?

Also, how was the decision to change it come about? Did you and Chris discuss it?

It was gratifying, btw, that the readers (at least, those who wrote in) were almost universally positive. Comic fans tend to fear change, but this one they liked!


*Sabretooth in fact was an early doodle I had done for a new Wolverine
costume, long before I came to do UNCANNY. At the point I did it, Logan
had not yet shown us his face.

SO glad you opted not to keep him in Fang's costume. While I like the costume, it never made snese to me to have Wolverine in long sleeves. ( I discovered the Fang costume long after I had been introduced to the character). Even when Jim Lee put the whole team in the yellow and blues ( blacks?) I thought it was cool except Wolverine had sleeves. Sleeves just don't look right on him.

Thanks for answering, JB.

So, my design got "into the family", just a generation earlier than I originally thought it might.

Don't recall what the Lee versions looked like, but to be absolutely correct, Wolverine's original suit is yellow, blue and black. The body and legs are yellow, the stripes are black, and the epaulets, trunks, boots and gloves are blue (with black trim, in the case of the boots). Sometimes (as in the piece I posted today) the blue is drawn very dark, with a lot of black -- except on the boots, because of their black trim.